“In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”
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“In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”
“To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment”
“Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed”
“True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment”
“God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures”
“Seek home for rest, for home is best”
“There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort ”
“The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose ”
“If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers”
“Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week”
“To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.”
“Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up”
“Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions”
“If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once a week.”
“He who sleeps half a day has won half a life”
“It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar”
“Joy and temperance and repose - slam the door on the doctor's nose”
“I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.”
“When I have found intense pain relieved, a weary brain soothed,and calm refreshing sleep obtained by a cigar, I have felt grateful to God, and have blessed His name”
“How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.”